Jardine Scholarship Awards 2009

The Jardine Foundation is an educational trust established in 1982 to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Jardine Matheson Group.

The Foundation in its discretion awards Jardine Scholarships annually to students to enable them to attend educational establishments, primarily selected colleges at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the United Kingdom.

The Scholarships are for first degree courses for periods of three or four years, or such longer period as the Scholarship Committee may decide and are tenable for courses at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Preference will be given to undergraduate courses in the following Colleges at :-

• Oxford University : Exeter, Oriel, Queen’s and Trinity
• Cambridge : Downing, Magdalene, Peterhouse and Trinity

Applicants must be under 25 years of age at the date of entry to any one of our preferred Colleges or Universities, which include Exeter, Oriel, Queen’s and Trinity at Oxford, and Downing, Magdalene, Peterhouse and Trinity at Cambridge, and must:-

• have reached an academic standard to qualify for entry to any one of such Colleges or Universities;
• be resident in Hong Kong or, in the opinion of the Trustees, have sufficient connection with Hong Kong to be properly regarded as Hong Kong applicants; or
• be resident in any of the countries in which Jardine Matheson Group has significant business interests, which primarily include mainland China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. For applications from Singapore, male applicants must complete or be exempted from National Service;
• N.B. Generally, applications will not be accepted from candidates whose parents have not resided in Hong Kong or other such relevant country for at least seven years prior to the proposed date of entry to University.
• be in a satisfactory state of health.

For more details, read HERE.

Closing date : 31 October 2008